The Wrangler's Bride by Justine Davis

Author:Justine Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 1998-10-15T20:11:16.687000+00:00

She wondered if he was going to come in at all. She knew, because he’d told her often enough, that the ranch neither knew nor cared that it was a holiday eve; the same work had to be done as on any other day. And it would be the same again tomorrow, Christmas Day.

But she also knew that Walt had done most of the chores before he hopped in the truck this morning and drove off toward town, Chipper beside him, headed home for a celebration only slightly marred by his little sister’s bout with the flu. The rest of the hands had—most of them stopping by to get a handful of cookies to tide them over on their journeys, and to leave her with some rather surprising tokens—been gone by noon, some riding, most piling in large groups into the two other available ranch vehicles, each driven by the man who had the farthest to go, who would reverse the trip the morning after Christmas Day, picking up the hands he’d dropped off today.

But Grant was still holed up in the tack room. He’d told her there would be no lesson today, rather gruffly, and apart from that he’d barely spoken to her.

He certainly hadn’t mentioned what happened in the kitchen yesterday. And she couldn’t decide if she was hurt or relieved. How could she, when she was still in shock? Never had she felt anything like what she’d felt when Grant kissed her. None of the imaginings she’d ever had, rising out of childish ignorance of what happened between a man and a woman, had ever been anything like this. Even what she’d experienced as an adult, although admittedly limited, had never, ever led her to believe that a single kiss could have the effect this one had had.

And there had been nothing of the infatuated child in that kiss. It had been purely adult woman, responding to adult male. The woman who had been trying so very hard to wish away the effect this man had on her. The woman who finally had to admit that the boy she’d had the huge crush on had become the man who could shake her to the core with a single kiss.

She took in a deep breath and held it for a moment. She didn’t know what to do now, but couldn’t help feeling that she should do something. Anything. And feeling that if she didn’t, she would soon be flying out of her skin. She was already pacing the floor of the living room, and she found herself checking the wood stove every five minutes despite the fact that she’d just added two sizable logs to it.

She made herself sit down on the comfortable old couch, just to stop herself from that fruitless crossing and recrossing of the room. She took in another deep breath, trying to steady herself. But it did little good, not when the air was scented with the fresh fragrance of the tree they’d brought home, now sitting in front of her, barely a yard away.

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